I'm not much of an expert in the area but I am aware that solutions already exist to managing database migrations in version control, e.g. sqitch and liquibase. However I'm currently planning a small ...

I don't know much about migrations, but this is a specific question I'm not sure how to answer.
In production, how can one change the database format/schema when there is already user data in there? ...

How can one move development / test code into production, and not end up breaking the functionality in Production environment? I am working with a small sized company, so they don't have a budget for ...

I am using a bunch of freelance programmers to develop a web application. We are in the early stages of development, meaning that we are making many changes to our database schema. We have one test ...

As an example I want to switch from C#/.NET to Scala/Jvm. I'm working as a self-employed and I'm free to choose my favorite language/platform. Having more than 8 years of experience in C#/.NET leads ...

I am an experienced C++ developer, I know the language in great details and have used some of its specific features intensively. Also, I know principles of OOD and design patterns. I am now learning ...

I am migrating a 10-years-old big CVS repository to Git. It seemed obvious to split this multiple-projects repository into several Git ones. But the decision-makers are used to CVS, therefore their ...

It is easy to find questions asking if one should start with python 2 or python 3, and it is a consensus that python 2 is the way to go as it is has more libraries and thus better supported.
Python 3 ...

Web applications usually have a database.
The code and the database work hand in hand together.
Therefore Frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Django create migration files
Sure there are also servers ...

I have been asked to investigate the possibility of re-engineering an existing ASP.NET AJAX Web Application as under MVC.
The project, as it stands ATM, is very heavily relient on Telerik's ASP.NET ...

I'm developing software for about 10 years. I began on QBasic and now I'm developing .NET using C# language. I'm always trying to follow the best design patterns and principals like SOLID. In short ...

Recently we got a requirement for converting a classic asp project to asp.net.
This one is really a very old project created around 2002/2003. It consists of around 50 asp pages. I found very little ...

I'm working on a data migration of several hundred nodes from a Drupal 6 to a Drupal 7 site. I've got the data exported to the new site and I want to check it. Harkening back to my statistics classes, ...

We have an enterprise application with a front end written in Microsoft Access 2003 that has evolved over the past 6 years. The back end data, and a fair amount of back-end logic is contained within ...

We have a C program which uses a .h header file to describe the custom-made data structure we use. The data structure must follow the design in the functional specification. There is some diagram to ...

After a system has gone through many migrations, and evolved enough for a second version, does it make sense to keep the old migrations around? I mean, old versions will use them to upgrade to the new ...

I'm currently trying to come up with a database migrations strategy for my organization. This includes getting the database scripts into source control, managing versioning, managing releases to QA / ...

We're considering converting our WinForms application to a WPF application. Part of the reason is that WPF/XAML seem to be the future. We are also using third party controls that we would like to be ...

Our application uses database (mostly Oracle), and database is at the core. Each customer has its own database, with its own copy of application. Now with each new release of our product, we also need ...

I'm working on an application, which when deployed is installed locally on client machines, and uses a local database server. Stupidly, I didn't plan for schema changes -- and now it needs to change.
...

I am going to have a lecture about C++ for experienced Java programmers. Because C++ is a big language and I have just one lecture, I want to point out the most important "gotchas" and C++ features ...

We have a web application which is developed in classic ASP and it evolved over 5 years to its current form which has 100's of pages, huge database and more than 10000 active users going through at ...

I'm looking for advice from people who have actually migrated a large system from WebForms to MVC.
What are the things to watch out for? The literature says that both can co-exist for the same system ...

We are doing a cost benefit analysis on a migration project.
It would be nice to be able to say that future changes will be x percent cheaper due to the migration.
Does anyone have any experience or ...

I am maintaining a VB6 application and we are studying how to migrate to .Net We are considering doing this gradually by implementing new features in COM visible .Net classes and migrating existing ...